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Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrike on northeast Lebanon kills 11

Sep. 29, 2024 04:12 AM EDT

An Israeli airstrike on northeast Lebanon killed 11 people Sunday morning, a day after the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah confirmed the death of multiple commanders, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli army says it's carrying out attacks on Hezbollah targets in...

What to know after Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Sep. 29, 2024 02:50 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is a monumental and hugely demoralizing blow to the group he led for 32 years, marking a significant inflection point for Lebanon and the region. Hezbollah’s announcement of his death Friday triggered...

Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike

Sep. 28, 2024 20:03 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut. The killing of the powerful militant group’s longtime leader sent shockwaves...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes kill Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

Sep. 28, 2024 19:52 PM EDT

Smoke rose from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday after the area was pummeled by heavy airstrikes that Israel said killed multiple Hezbollah commanders, including leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader, whose killing could...

Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'

Sep. 28, 2024 19:20 PM EDT

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice" for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday. The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier...

Russia invokes its nuclear capacity in a UN speech that's full of bile toward the West

Sep. 28, 2024 17:41 PM EDT

Russia’s top diplomat warned Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power,” delivering a U.N. General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western attempts at global domination and machinations in Ukraine -- and even inside the United Nations...

Hundreds of fleeing families sleep on beaches and streets after Israel's strikes shake Beirut

Sep. 28, 2024 16:09 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Smoke was still rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday morning, visible to many of the families who had fled their homes there the night before to escape Israel’s massive bombardment. It had been a harrowing night — getting out amid earthshaking...

Netanyahu, at UN, vows that Israel will keep 'degrading Hezbollah' until its objectives are met

Sep. 28, 2024 15:42 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu signaled to the world from the United Nations on Friday that the multiple conflicts in the Middle East were far from resolved, and he vowed to continue battling the Lebanese Hezbollah and defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip until “total...

Netanyahu says Hezbollah leader's killing became an "essential condition" for Israel to achieve its war goals

Sep. 28, 2024 14:46 PM EDT
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Netanyahu says Hezbollah leader's killing became an "essential condition" for Israel to achieve its war goals.

China, at UN, warns against 'expansion of the battlefield' in the Ukraine war

Sep. 28, 2024 14:23 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Three days before his communist government turns 75, China's foreign minister warned fellow leaders Saturday against an “expansion of the battlefield” in Russia's war with Ukraine and said the Beijing government remains committed to shuttle diplomacy and efforts to push the...